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--- KZK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > KZK thanks for interesting and thought-provoking > > stuff. > > I try. > > > Look, I like Miazaki and I have enjoyed a lot of > other > > anime. Still, there seems to be a deep and > abiding > > reluctance to do SF that I would call "for > grownups". > > I tried to list ones that were mostly fairly serious > drama's with very > little "super deformed" animation. > > > Look, I know I have a lot more to see! Thanks > for the > > viewing assignment. I will work my way thru it > > (slowly.) > > Start with _Trigun_. It's the best of the ones I > listed. It starts > goofy, but gets more & more serious. > > > >>Most stories that deal with time travel forget > that > > we are also moving very rapidly in space, so if > you > > were to travel in time you wouldn't bein the > relative > > vicinity of where you traveled from.. > > > See Benford"s TIMESCAPE that actually uses this > as > > part of the plot. > > Time travel is my favorite Genre of Science Fiction. > > Speaking of Time-Travel and Japanese games, The best > one was released a > few years ago for the Playstation called _Chrono > Trigger_. > > > >>It seems to me, the biggest problem with faster > than > > light travel (and time travel) is traveling at > exactly > > the speed of light (which is > > division by zero). If you could 'jump' over > close to > > exactly c you > > could avoid most of the unpleasantries. > > > Which is why some people believe there may be > > tachyons. > > I never knew that! > > > Thanks for the comprehensive run down of > Japanimation > > studios! > > Animation Quality has come a long way over just the > past 10 years. > Compare the quality of the Show _Trigun_ (1998), to > _Gungrave_ (2003?), > same studio and same author. > > > As for amateur CGI sf films... they do NOT have > to be > > of the same rendering quality as Beowulf! A > helluva > > market niche awaits decent "cartoon" level > renderings > > of really good stories. > > For 2d it already exists. It's called Flash > animation. There are even > several shows made that way on cartoon network and > nickelodeon (_Mucha > Lucha_, _Handy Manny_, _fosters home for imaginary > friends_, _sealab > 2021_, _harvey birdman attorney at law_, etc.). The > animation is very > awkward and unnatural, and generally doesn't look > very good (fosters and > birdman being the best animated, and most > expensive). > > As for 3d, it took the guy who made _Sky Captain and > the World of > Tomorrow_ something like a year and half to make > what amounted to a 3 > minute trailer. It was really good, for one man > working alone, but it > didn't scale up. In order to make the movie, he > basically had to create > his own studio with hundreds of employee's. > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
